Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Gelechiidae | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Aristotelia | |
Aristotelia epacria is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Bradley in 1965. It is found in Uganda.
The wingspan is 16-19 mm. The forewings are white, variably suffused, in places strongly, with greyish fuscous and with blackish markings. There is a small blackish patch at the base of the costa, a narrow outward-oblique somewhat diffuse blackish fascia from the costa at one-sixth, terminating before the inner margin and followed distally by a whitish area very weakly suffused with fuscous. A wedge-shaped blackish patch is found on the costa at about one-third, contiguous with a small spot of somewhat roughened black scales at about one-third across the wing, a similar spot diagonally beyond this near the middle of the wing, a little below and slightly basad of which is an elongate blackish stigma lying in the plical fold. There is also a small spot of roughened blackish scales at the end of the cell a little above the tornus. The area between this and blackish spots at the middle are predominantly whitish. The apical area is mostly whitish, weakly suffused with greyish fuscous. There are scattered blackish scales along the termen, around the apex and in the apical margin before the apex. The hindwings are greyish.